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Author : Dell Rourk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781434366191
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (661 download)
Download or read book Racing for the Gold written by Dell Rourk and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Todd Gould
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253341334
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (413 download)
Download or read book For Gold and Glory written by Todd Gould and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The story of the "Negro Speed King" and the African American racing car circuit* Chronicles the tragedies and triumphs of a dedicated group of individuals who overcame tremendous odds to chase their dreams
Author : Chris Cleave
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451672748
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Gold written by Chris Cleave and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the tradition of Little Bee, Chris Cleave again writes with elegance, humor, and passion about friendship, marriage, parenthood, tragedy, and redemption. What would you sacrifice for the people you love? KATE AND ZOE met at nineteen when they both made the cut for the national training program in track cycling—a sport that demands intense focus, blinding exertion, and unwavering commitment. They are built to exploit the barest physical and psychological edge over equally skilled rivals, all of whom are fighting for the last one tenth of a second that separates triumph from despair. Now at thirty-two, the women are facing their last and biggest race: the 2012 Olympics. Each wants desperately to win gold, and each has more than a medal to lose. Kate is the more naturally gifted, but the demands of her life have a tendency to slow her down. Her eight-year-old daughter Sophie dreams of the Death Star and of battling alongside the Rebels as evil white blood cells ravage her personal galaxy—she is fighting a recurrence of the leukemia that nearly killed her three years ago. Sophie doesn’t want to stand in the way of her mum’s Olympic dreams, but each day the dark forces of the universe seem to be massing against her. Devoted and self-sacrificing Kate knows her daughter is fragile, but at the height of her last frenzied months of training, might she be blind to the most terrible prognosis? Intense, aloof Zoe has always hovered on the periphery of real human companionship, and her compulsive need to win at any cost has more than once threatened her friendship with Kate—and her own sanity. Will she allow her obsession, and the advantage she has over a harried, anguished mother, to sever the bond they have shared for more than a decade? Echoing the adrenaline-fueled rush of a race around the Velodrome track, Gold is a triumph of superbly paced, heart-in-throat storytelling. With great humanity and glorious prose, Chris Cleave examines the values that lie at the heart of our most intimate relationships, and the choices we make when lives are at stake and everything is on the line.
Author : Avalyn Hunter
Publisher : Hundreds of Heads Books, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781581501735
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Gold Rush written by Avalyn Hunter and published by Hundreds of Heads Books, LLC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Prospector showed early brilliance as a speedster on the racetrack, but nothing could have prepared the horse racing world for the spectacular progenitor he would become. By the time of his death at age 29 in 1999, Mr. Prospector had led the U.S. sire list twice (with his sons and daughters earning more than $16 million) and had led the broodmare sire list twice. He has since led the broodmare sire list seven more times. He sired 2000 Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus, who sold for $4 million as a yearling and was syndicated for stud duty for $70 million. Respected pedigree expert Avalyn Hunter looks at Mr. Prospector and his incredible impact on the American Thoroughbred.
Author : U.S. Olympic Women Cross-Country Skiers 1972-2018
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578963327
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Trail to Gold written by U.S. Olympic Women Cross-Country Skiers 1972-2018 and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-three American women have participated in cross-country skiing in the Winter Olympics between the years of 1972 and 2018. In 2018, forty-six years after the first team competed, Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall won Olympic gold in the Team Sprint, in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the first Olympic medal for U.S. women's cross-country skiing. Five decades of women skiers stood up and cheered, celebrating this long sought after achievement. This book shares the collective journey of these women Olympians, with the skiers themselves telling the story. Part I combines individual stories along a variety of themes, to collectively demonstrate the challenges of competing against the best in the world. In Part II, virtually every one of the fifty-three wrote her own profile to describe her skiing career and post-Olympic life. Photographs throughout put faces with the stories and add vibrancy to the narrative. The anecdotes in Trail to Gold: The Journey of 53 Women Skiers, paint the picture of women's cross-country skiing over 50 years--a fascinating history recorded in personal heartbreak and triumph and in fun vignettes from life on the trail.
Author : Marty Nothstein
Publisher : Rodale
ISBN 13 : 9781609613372
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Price of Gold written by Marty Nothstein and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the story of track cyclist Marty Nothstein from his upbringing in a blue-collar home to his gold-medal victory at the Olympic games, recounting how his dedication often forced him to explore his vulnerabilities as an athlete.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Crime
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Organized Crime in Sports (racing). written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Crime and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angela Jimenez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692772126
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Racing Age written by Angela Jimenez and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of documentary photographs and essays about competitive masters track & field athletes by photojournalist Angela Jimenez.
Author : Robin Oakley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472935128
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Sixty Years of Jump Racing written by Robin Oakley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin Oakley brings alive the colourful world of those who ride and train jumping horses. With elegant production and gripping images, Sixty Years of Jump Racing chronicles the social and economic changes which have brought the sport's ups and downs-like the development of sponsorships and syndicate ownership, the near loss of the Grand National, the growing domination of the Cheltenham Festival and the growth of all-weather racing to meet the bookies' demands for betting shop fodder. Pace and colour is provided by stories of the horses who have been taken to the heart of racing crowds, like the Irish-trained hurdler Istabraq and Best Mate, the three-times winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup for England. Famous rivalries and memorable races are re-lived and key victories revisited in portraits of and interviews with the owners, jockeys and trainers who have dominated the sport. The emphasis will be largely on the past fifty years-from Arkle to Tony McCoy-but a significant introduction by Edward Gillespie encapsulates the past history of what was previously known as 'National Hunt Racing' and sets the stories in context.
Author : Avalyn Hunter
Publisher : Eclipse Press
ISBN 13 : 9781581500950
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (9 download)
Download or read book American Classic Pedigrees (1914-2002) written by Avalyn Hunter and published by Eclipse Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a monumental and important work for the Thoroughbred industry, author and pedigree researcher Avalyn Hunter provides extensive pedigree analysis of every American classic race winner from 1914 through 2002.
Author : Marguerite Henry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689715625
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Black Gold written by Marguerite Henry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1957 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Black Gold, a winner of the Kentucky Derby.
Author : David D. Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439621179
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Hydroplane Racing in Detroit written by David D. Williams and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a time when hydroplane racing captured the heart of the Detroit community in a way that has never been equaled. Since the start of the 20th century, Detroit has been the hub of the motorized world. It was only natural that the powerful motors built in Detroit's huge factories eventually found their way into high-speed boats and that organized racing soon followed. Starting in 1916, Detroit became the center of powerboat racing. Names like Gar Wood, Chris Smith, and Horace Dodge dominated the sports pages of the 1920s and 1930s. Following World War II, racing in Detroit entered its golden era, led by local businessmen like Jack Schafer, Joe Schoenith and George Simon.
Author : David D. Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439614563
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Hydroplane Racing in Seattle written by David D. Williams and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hydroplane racing burst onto the Seattle scene in 1950, and local sports fans embraced it with a passion that is hard to imagine. Throughout the early 1950s, thousands of fans flocked to Lake Washington to watch classic races between Seattles Slo-mo-shun boats and a fleet of East Coast challengers. For over 40 years, hydroplane racing was synonymous with summertime in Seattle. During its golden age, when hydro fever was at its height, drivers like Bill Muncey, Ron Musson, and Mira Slovak were sports heroes on par with todays Ken Griffey Jr. or Ichiro. Seattle became the hydro capital of the nation.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Horseless Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Bateson-Hill
Publisher : Hodder Christian Books
ISBN 13 : 9781846471650
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (716 download)
Download or read book First Flight written by Margaret Bateson-Hill and published by Hodder Christian Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joanna Morris has no idea that her life is about to change once she shoots to stardom as the youngest racing dragon flyer in the country. Flying Excelsior, the stunning silver spiked-back dragon is more exciting than anything she's ever known and he's soon her closest friend in the world. But beneath the glitz and glamour of dragon racing lie burning ambitions and a greed that threatens to consume anything and anyone that stands in the way - including the sport's rising stars.
Author : Richard Stone Reeves
Publisher : Eclipse Press
ISBN 13 : 0939049902
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Crown Jewels of Thoroughbred Racing written by Richard Stone Reeves and published by Eclipse Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes articles about twenty five of the world's most famous racetracks, along with paintings of many of the world's most famous race horses.
Author : Betty Boles Ellison
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476616221
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Early Laps of Stock Car Racing written by Betty Boles Ellison and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first organized, sanctioned American stock car race took place in 1908 on a road course around Briarcliff, New York--staged by one of America's early speed mavens, William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. A veteran of the early Ormond-Daytona Beach speed trials, Vanderbilt brought the Grand Prize races to Savannah, Georgia, the same year. What began as a rich man's sport eventually became the working man's sport, finding a home in the South with the infusion of moonshiners and their souped-up cars. Based in large part on statements of drivers, car owners and others garnered from archived newspaper articles, this history details the development of stock car racing into a megasport, chronicling each season through 1974. It examines the National Association for Stock Car Automobile Racing's 1948 incorporation documents and how they differ from the agreements adopted at NASCAR's organization meeting two months earlier. The meeting's participants soon realized that their sport was actually owned by William H.G. "Bill" France, and its consequential growth turned his family into billionaires. The book traces the transition from dirt to asphalt to superspeedways, the painfully slow advance of safety measures and the shadowy economics of the sport.
